HRSA’s Fiscal Year 2003 budget totals $6.98 billion, an increase of $589 million over FY 2002 figures.
 
Almost three-quarters of the additional funds come from increases of:
• $267 million for bioterrorism activities and
• $159 million for primary health care, with $137 million of that increase directed to the ongoing Presidential initiative to expand the health center network.
 
Other substantial increases were targeted to the HIV/AIDS Bureau ($72 million) and Bureau of Health Professions programs ($64 million).
 
“This new budget reaffirms the confidence of the Bush Administration and Congress in our mission to expand Americans’ access to health care and our ability to administer programs that make it happen,” said HRSA Administrator Elizabeth M. Duke, Ph.D.  “And it shows that President Bush’s health center expansion plan, along with other core HRSA efforts, enjoys broad bipartisan support.”
 
View the FY 2003 budget table, which contains a comparison to last year’s revised figures.